This podcast is titled Dealing with the basics, what you really need to know.
Ross Brown from The SWCRC is joined in this episode Paul Croker. Paul is the CIO and Director of 18it an IT compnay based in Bristol. Paul believes every business needs a strategy. and that your IT needs to align and empower your staff. 18iT aligns your IT to your business plan delivering successful outcomes.
This episode really does take us back to basics and is aimed at those who are new to cyber security or need a refresh. We look at what makes a good password, how to back up data to the cloud, and how inexpensive this can be particularly when set against less reliable backup means, as well as loads of the other useful hints and tips.

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Ross from the SWCRC is talking to Chris Burn from CSRB Limited all about GDPR. CSRB have a head office in Bristol and a further office in Manchester. Chris fulfils Data Protection Officer roles for organisations across the UK, providing advice to charities, solopreneurs, micro businesses, SMEs, all the way through to blue chip organisations. Chris also has a wealth of commercial and professional experience and undertakes monthly CPD training to ensure all data protection advice given is accurate, compliant, concise, relevant, and offers business owners peace of mind.
So buckle up and enjoy 20 minutes of plain speaking on how to make GDPR painless.

This podcast is led by Prof. John Goodacre: University of Manchester who is here to tell us all about the UK Research and Innovation

John is Professor of Computer Architectures at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester in the UK having previously spent 17 years with Arm Ltd as the Director of Technology and Systems where he defined and introduced the first multicore processors and other core technologies. He is also appointed by UK government's Research & Innovation agency as the Director of the Digital Security by Design Challenge Fund, a £200M programme to enable industry and researchers to create a step change in approach to cybersecurity, blocking vulnerabilities by design and protecting the operation and data by default. His research interest include web-scale servers, exascale efficient systems and secure and ubiquitous computing.
The UK’s National Cyber Strategy realises that the unsustainable “react and patch” approach to cyber security today, is not enough to shift the needle against cybercrime.
UK Government acknowledge that it is imperative that businesses move to ensure products are delivered to be more secure by design.
The continuous cycle of patching and mitigating vulnerabilities is at the core of today’s organisation’s strategy to protect their cyber-attack surface.

Cybercriminals only need to be right once, while defenders need to be right all the time.

The Digital Security by Design Challenge (DSbD), run by UKRI, is rethinking how computers are built to be inherently more secure from cyber-attacks.

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This was first run as webinar on 5 Oct with Ross Brown SWCRC talking to Neil Furminger the Cyber Essentials (CE) manager from IASME. By popular request this is being put out as a podcast for all those who missed it the first time around and for those of you who asked to share it with others.
This episode is just the start of your journey explaining all about CE and how you can achieve it, the free tools available to help you and what resources you look to for support.

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Megan is a Cyber Protect Officer with Avon and Somerset Police. In this episode she talks to Ross Brown from the SWCRC about what her role entails as well as how to make your business safer online. She also talks about fraud prevention measures. There are Cyber Protect Officers in each force area should you need to contact them.



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Ross Brown SWCRC and Sarah who is a senior leader in cyber security and Deputy Director of the National Cyber Security Centre discuss how the NCSC supports local businesses.

Sarah has responsibility for Economy and Society Resilience. The Economy and Society team leads on interactions with charities, Small and Medium-sized businesses, academic institutions, wider economic sectors, as well as citizens. Sarah has been working in cyber security since 2010 and has grown the Economy and Society team from scratch when the NCSC was formed. She has also led the NCSC’s cyber security support to HMG’s COVID-19 response and the Critical National Infrastructure Resilience team.

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This podcast is titled Responding to a Ransomware Attack – An introduction to Threat Actors Comms

Ross Brown from the SWCRC is joined in this episode by Gurvinder Dhiman. Gurvinder is a Senior Digital Forensics Incident Response (DFIR) Analyst, based out of Kivu’s London office. With extensive experience in cyber security particually around digital forensics, incident response, security consulting, threat hunting, cyber intelligence, and proactive computer network defense solutions and services. He has worked in a variety of industries, including retail, insurance, medical, technology and government. Gurvinder has received multiple awards throughout his career for his tehnical skills and outstanding client realtionship management.

We talk extensively on how to deal with a Ransomware attack. This is really worth a listen as it is a subject that is not often discussed.

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In this Episode Ross Brown of the SWCRC talks to Mandy Haeburn-Little of Business Resilience International Management (BRIM) about the CRC concept and their relevance and importance to businesses and their supply chains, as well as the benefits that can be had from joining the Board of a Cyber Resilience Centre.

Mandy has worked in the private sector throughout her career. She has worked extensively with companies facing significant challenges and has been recognised for her creativity in finding solutions to dilemmas, has an unparalleled network of contacts and has particular acute knowledge of the international cyber landscape as well as excellent socio-political knowledge.

As well as leading and delivering the national Programme of Cyber Centres for Policing, Mandy is also now working directly with National and International business leaders on the development of a single National entity which will support the network of Regional Cyber Resilience Centres.

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